2013 09 11

One in five Lithuanians below poverty risk line

Some 560,000 people in Lithuania, or 18.6 percent of the population, were below the poverty risk line last year, down by 0.6 percentage points compared with 2011, according to a survey of incomes and living conditions carried out by the country's statistics office.

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The at-risk-of-poverty threshold last year was income of 749 litas (EUR 217) monthly for a single person and 1,572 litas for a family of two adults and two children under 14 years of age, Statistics Lithuania said.

The percentage of the population with disposable incomes below this level was 13.7 percent in urban areas and 28.5 percent in rural areas.